Kirk Cameron

He was born Kirk Thomas Cameron on Oct. 12, 1970, in Panorama City, CA to Robert Cameron, a teacher, and Barbara Cameron, a homemaker. Though his parents initially did not project show business aspirations onto their children, a family friend in the business noted to Barbara that both Kirk and sister Candace were cute enough that they could easily pick up lucrative work in commercials. After Cameron began appearing in TV ads for Polaroid, McDonald's and Count Chocula cereal, he found himself wound up in Hollywood's notorious child-star mill, netting minor cute-kid parts in a handful of TV movies, including a couple of Disney projects and two "ABC After School Specials" (1972-95). In 1983, he... Continue Bio >>